If you don't like being under someone else's thumb, do you mean being managed or working for someone else?

If it's the former, work and get good at your job and get promoted

If it's the latter, make a plan. Learn a trade, milk the company you work for and then get out and start your own competitive business. Take all their customers, undercut their rates and do a better job. But understand you will need to work probably 120 hours a week, be horribly in debt and have to miss out on lots of things to make this work.

It sounds horrible doesn't it. But sadly that's how most successful companies work

Or there is one other option. Come up with something new. Use the fact you hate what you do, but appreciate you are getting paid. Then use that to really think hard about what will make you happy. Will it be being rich or will it be working for yourself for a pittance but loving what you do? Will it be having a job working for someone else but getting quality time with you family, doing what you like doing and not worrying about a career? Will it be working to provide for your future, your families future ?

These are shitty questions you need to ask yourself as nowadays we can't have it all it seems.